Tablet ornament



(No Model.)

L. B. PRAHAR. TABLET ORNAMENT.

No. 447,622. Patented Mar. 3, 1891.

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-515W By ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT EEIoE.

LOUIS B. PRAHAR, OF BROOKLYN, NElV YORK.

TABLET ORNAMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 447,622, dated March 3, 1891.

Application filed June 16, 1890. Serial No. 355,605. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS B. PRAHAR, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Tablet Ornament, of which the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to tablet ornaments, and has for its object to provide a tablet adapted for attachment to a pocket-book, a purse, a chatelaine, or traveling-bag, and like articles, which tablets when attached will be convenient of access and constitute an ornament.

A further object of the invention is to provide a tablet with a stop and automatic latch device.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set fort-h, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure l is afront View of the device, illustrated as applied to a pocket-book; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device detached, with the sliding cover open.

The device consists in a front and back plate 10 and 11, of any desired contour, and one or a series of tablet-leaves 12 between the plates, the front plate, and likewise the leaves, being pivotally connected with the back plate, usually by a pin 13 passed'through the outer plate and leaves and secured to the back plate. The location of the pin is preferably at or near one end of the plates.

The tablet-leaves 12 are ordinarily made to approximate the contour of the plates, and are formed from celluloid, ivory, zylonite, or a material having a silicate face, or any other material upon which memoranda may be produced by a pencil and readily erased.

Upon the upper face of the front plate, at or near the end opposite the pivot, a teat or projection 14 is formed, adapted to engage with a latch 15, attached to the corresponding end of the back plate. The latch 15 is automatic in its action, and also serves as a stop limiting the movement of the tabletleaves and front plate in one direction, ordinarily downward; and the latch also serves to guide the swinging or pivoted plates or leaves to their proper closed position. latch usually consists of' a strip of spring metal attached to or integral with the back or stationary plate, and the strip is bent outward at an angle from the back plate a dis tance practically corresponding with the combined thickness of the front plate and leaves at their margins, and then inward over the back. The inner end of the latch is provided with a cavityinto which the teat of the front plate is adapted to enter when said plate is closed.

Any approved means may be employed for attaching the back plate to a pocket-book, bag, or other article-as, for instance, spurs or pins 16 may be projected from the inner face of the back plate, as illustrated; or the back plate may be hinged to the article to cover an orifice or opening; or the said plate may constitute the outer hinged member of an ordinary pocketbook clasp.

Although the automatic latch-stop illustrated is preferred, it may be substituted by an independent latch and stop of ordinary construction, and the shape of the latch-stop may be varied without departing from-the spirit of the invention.

It is very desirable that all the tablet-leaves should be folded to place when the top or cover plate is closed, and this is usually effected by attaching to one margin of the cover-plate a downwaidly-extending lug 17, which lug carries with it and forces all the leaves to follow the inward movement of the said plate.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A tablet ornament for the purpose described, consisting of a back plate and a pivoted front plate, memoranda-leaves pivoted between the two plates, a spring-latch device secured to the back plate, and a gathering and stop lug attached to the pivoted plate, substantially as described, whereby when the plates are brought one over the other they The are locked and the leaves compelled to follow device, substantially as described, attached the pivoted plate, as set forth. to the back plate, as and for the purpose [0 2. In a tablet ornament, the combination, specified.

with a back plate and a pivoted front plate,

3 5 of n1en1oranda-leaves pivoted between the LOUIS 1 RA] two plates, a combined spring-latch and stop Witnesses: device attached to one plate and adapted for J. T. AOKER, engagement with the other, and a fastening EDGAR TATE. 

